Garden at Baumgartner Home Shows Beauty With Little Help
The Baumgartner residence at 1209 Ohio Street features a terraced back garden with lilac hedges, iris, tulips, jonquils, roses, hollyhocks, zinnias, and chrysanthemums. Owners designed and built the space themselves, creating a colorful, private groundscape without a landscape architect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Baumgartner
Ohio Street
Althe Lawrence
J. Gordon Gibb
Cornell University
Pi Kappa Alpha
Baumgartner
Paul
Peanut butter muffins and Bavarian cream dessert featured
A vintage food column presents peanut butter muffins with Virginia Slichter’s endorsed recipe, plus chicken timbales with mushroom sauce, Bavarian cream with strawberries, and kitchen tips. Detailed steps include ingredients, mixing, baking, and serving notes for each dish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Slichter
Rhodes Island Street
Better Homes and Gardens
Keeping Eggs Fresh in a Historic Guide
An old instruction notes eggs are best when about twelve hours old and offers methods to preserve them. It suggests covering with fat or wax, limewater, or packing in sawdust or meal, and storing in a cool dry place. Whites may keep for days if cooled. yolks store briefly with careful beating.
Flag of Unusual Design Belonged to Tosh Family
Mrs. L. D. L. Tosh owns an early American flag with a blue field and thirteen white stars, a green spread eagle center, and ten worn red and white stripes. The flag, once about thirty feet, was sailed with family, indicating Revolutionary era origins and long service in multiple wars. It was brought to Lawrence from Kansas City and preserved in Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. D. L. Tosh
New Hampshire Street
Tosh
Preble County
Ohio
Virginia
Carolinas
University of Kansas
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
Lawrence
Kansas City
C. A. Hill
Kew
Hampshire Street
Municipal Tidiness and Parental Duty in Public Spaces
A columnist argues parents shape cleanliness beyond the home and urges adults to model tidy streets. The piece notes litter from daily routines and picnics, calls for early training, and links municipal tidiness to tax payments and long term costs. Also includes brief fashion note on paper beach hats and a kitchen planning tip during housecleaning week.
Doll Costume Doll Collection Grows at Kansas University
Miss Rosemary Ketcham head of design at the University of Kansas maintains a collection of over fifty dolls used to illustrate foreign costumes. The dolls, shown at the university museum and Kansas City Art Institute, inspire student designs. The display includes pieces from France, India, Jerusalem, China, Japan, and Lenci dolls from Turin. Also noted are Hungarian, Spanish, cornhusk, and Austrian carved dolls, with many European nations represented and other personal news from Baldwin community events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosemary Ketcham
University of Kansas
University Museum
Kansas City Art Institute
Miss Ketcham
Episcopal Parish House
France
California Expositions
Jerusalem
India
Japan
Lenci
Dolmaker
Turin
Italy
San Juan Pueblo
Laguna
N. M
Mexico
Austria
Belgium
Holland
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Scotland
Switzerland
Germany
Easter visits and local gatherings in Baldwin town
Easter week in Baldwin featured visitors joining Mrs. H. K. Ebright and extended family from Kansas City and Wichita. Local engagements included church events in Topeka, a Ladies Aid meeting, a potluck supper by the Woman’s Auxiliary, a bridge club gathering, a farewell for C. S. Welfley with a mock trial, and several relatives visiting relatives across town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Wis
Bert Jones
Elsie Schnebly
Mary Martin
Eldren Meller
C. J. Fischer
G. J. Hunt
Robert Grant Anderson
Topeka
C. S. Welfley
Gem Theater
Welfley
Baldwin
Wendall Dean
Honor Guest
Harold W. Guest
Baldwin Booster Club
Mr. Welfley
Baldwin News Briefs Show Local Visits and Weddings
Mr and Mrs Harmon Downs returned to Pharr Texas after visiting Mrs Downs parents and their daughter Miss Gladys Downs at the Zeta Tau Alpha house. Miss Marie Sutton and Paul Mc Daniels, former Baker students, were married in Neodesha with Rev R K Sutton officiating. Mrs Wallace Fleming and Dean Grace Irvin, plus Miss Marlene Delke of Baldwin, attended. Mr and Mrs JG English and sons Robert and William of Macksville visited Rev and Mrs Ayers. The English family lives in Lawrence during the school year while their three children study at the University of Kansas. Mr and Mrs Karlton Marquardt of Tongonoxie visited Easter with Mr and Mrs George Marquardt. Mrs JH Wright and Joyce of Hopkins spent a week in Baldwin with relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welfley
Dora Metz
Falls City
Nebr
William M. Balch
Robert McIntire
Highland
A. E. Burgtorf
Lawrence
Floyd Talley
Potter
Joan
Memorial Hospital
Emil Liston
Book Club
S. §. Shumaker
Agnes Mae Shumaker
Phyllis Shumaker
Eva Hodges
Hays
Theodore Stewart
Spearville
Clara B. Johnson
Parsons
Gordon Coldsmith
Baldwin
Charles Coldsmith
Flora Ricketts
F. H. Beil
Bert Cooper
Rogers
Arkansas
Wilma Sheepflin
Kansas City
Jacob Schoeplin
David McKinney
S. D. Jacobs
Kansas
Old Baldwin
Helen Keve
Topeka
Tax Commissioner
State House
Atte May Dierking
Carlsbad
Leo Smith
John C. Bovard
Hugh P. Hartley
Walter Sample
Martha of
Kingman
Clyde Stewart
Ae Edward Huey
Huey
M. D. Ballard
Roy Clary
Vivian Weir
Beulah Robey
David Young
Amelia
Earl Morris
E.H. Harrison
Anna Lee
Norton
Marie Harrison
Lorene
Bernice Smith
Smith Grocery
E. H. Farr
J. W. Alexander
Jack
C. E. Francis
Orval Fox
D. L. Dalke
Dalke
Missouri Wesleyan
Cameron
R. H. Twitchell
Jazbalo
Edward C. Allderdice
Chicago
Evelath
Minn
J. F. Lewis
North 7Th Street
James S. Chubb
Lewis
Baker
Hiawatha
Methodist Church
Wiley A. Reeve
Quillan Lewis
Powhatan
J. W. Pfiester
Maude Constant
Lee Lewis
Wilbert W. Lewis
Anna Lewis
C. A. Constant
Lillian Constant
Harold Constant
Oscar Coward
Mabel Fry
Ella Cline
J. F. Eisenhow
W. W. Lewis
Billy Bert
John
W. H. Garrett
Richard
University of Kansas
Milwaukee
John Garrett
S. B. Haskin
Lenex
Methodist
Lenexa
Alonzo Bright
Haskin
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
Haskins
Eunice, Britt
H. K. Ebright
Wright
W. L. Moorhead
Russell Cross
Ebright
Jack Moorhead
Margaret Goodson
E. S. Hayworth
Kenneth
Wichita
George Marquardt
Hayworth
Iane Miller
Manhattan
Willis Meyers
Margaret Windett
James 8. Chubb
Washington Avenue
Merle Fischer
J. M. Montgomrey
Mary Counts Morgan
James Counts
Ladies Aid
J. S. Hockemsmith
Clarence E. Holcombe
Holcombe
Masonite Temple
Chester Zook
Harmon Downs
Pharr
Texas
Marlene Delke
J.G. English and Sons
Robert
William
Macksville
A. E. Ayers
English
Karlton Marquardt
Tongonoxie
Mr. Marquardt
J. H. Wright
Joyce
Hopkins, Mo
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Brooke Peters
Tommy
Daddy
Paris
Schiaparelli
E. Y. Twitchell
Columbia, Mo
Mount
Mihara
Oshima
Tokyo Bay
Coleman
Green Bros
Mass
Baldwin News
Cook
Velvay
RIOR
CA Seteemnernaner
Ett
Lawrence Paint and Wallpaper Store
Winter Chevrolet Co
Axagay
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